Do you think Apple was the first to introduce multi-touch interface?! Wrong!!! They [Apple] were just the first to successfully introduce technology to mass market.
History goes as far as 1982 when University of Toronto developed the first finger pressure multi-touch display.
There were bunch of academic research and some attempts to commercialize the technology... But none of them really succeed until in 2005 Apple bought Fingerworks
In 2007 apple released iPhone.
But, before that.... probably the very first public appearance of multi-touch technology is the presentation of Jeff Han at TED 2006.
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